By CALEB AYANSINA

ABUJA – PRIMATE, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to take all necessary measures to avoid a repeat of the shortfalls in the just concluded Anambra State gubernatorial election, come 2015 general election.
Okoh, who gave the advice in an interview with newsmen during the diaconate ordination, collation of canon and the annual diocesan thanksgiving at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, in Abuja, said the electoral umpire must strive for credible elections in 2015.

“We hope that the 2015 election will not be like the Anambra elections,” he stated. Speaking on a theme titled; ‘Seek peace and pursue it’, Okoh said: “We want to continue to emphasis the necessity of peace in our homes and communities. It is for every Nigerian to promote peace because we have nowhere to go in the event of a major crisis. We chose the theme because we are disturbed by the lingering insecurity.

“It is in the interest of all of us to seek peace and pursue it so that there will be peace in all part of the country and give our children the opportunity to freely interract with other children in the world,” he noted.
Anglican Bishop of Sokoto, Rt. Rev. Augustine Omole, in his sermon, enjoined Christian faithful to live exemplary lives. “The world is falling apart and the Church appears to be tilting towards the way of the world. Seers or herbalists in time past lived in groves, but they are no longer staying in groves; the groves have metamorphosed into churches.

The cleric also cautioned the three ordained deacons and the collated priest to take their calling with utmost seriousness, while making positive change in the contemporary world.